Seventeen Mile Drive

The 17-mile drive is a quasi-public route that winds along the shore of the Monterey Peninsula, past spectacular granite headlands and beaches, through neighborhoods of stunning houses, and around a series of golf courses that used to be sand dunes and Cypress groves.

It reminded me of Acadia. The granite, the coastline, the proximity to wealth.  In an ideal world, the Monterey Peninsula would be a National Park.  In another ideal world, it would be mine, and the only house would be my modest stone cottage overlooking Cypress Point.